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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Norbert Nemec wrote:
> Is there at least a way to exactly position floating boxes (with text,
> pictures or formulas) in fixed positions (relative to the anchor point,
> relative to the page or whatever)? Preferable, the box should just float
> on to of the regular text without shifting everything around.

The simplest solution is to *not* use floating objects and simply put your
figures and tables inside the text. This is actually what I do myself,
because the use of floating objects slows down the editor and I usually
want my figures to appear at a very definite place. When used in
combination with page breaking or page break preventing directives,
just before printing the final version, this usually works fine.

> B.t.w: I think the lack of control over the exact page layout is one of
> the major drawbacks of TeXmacs. It is great that page-layout is done
> automatically and intelligently, but for certain tasks, this can really
> get in the way.

I agree that we have to rework on this point.